Dr KARL SHUKER

Zoologist, media consultant, and science writer, Dr Karl Shuker is also one of the best known cryptozoologists in the world. He is the author of such seminal works as Mystery Cats of the World (1989), The Lost Ark: New and Rediscovered Animals of the 20th Century (1993; greatly expanded in 2012 as The Encyclopaedia of New and Rediscovered Animals), Dragons: A Natural History (1995), In Search of Prehistoric Survivors (1995), The Unexplained (1996), From Flying Toads To Snakes With Wings (1997), Mysteries of Planet Earth (1999), The Hidden Powers of Animals (2001), The Beasts That Hide From Man (2003), Extraordinary Animals Revisited (2007), Dr Shuker's Casebook (2008), Karl Shuker's Alien Zoo: From the Pages of Fortean Times (2010), Cats of Magic, Mythology, and Mystery (2012), Mirabilis: A Carnival of Cryptozoology and Unnatural History (2013), Dragons in Zoology, Cryptozoology, and Culture (2013), The Menagerie of Marvels (2014), A Manifestation of Monsters (2015), Here's Nessie! (2016), and what is widely considered to be his cryptozoological magnum opus, Still In Search Of Prehistoric Survivors (2016) - plus, very excitingly, his first two long-awaited, much-requested ShukerNature blog books (2019, 2020).

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Thursday 28 January 2010

MY EGG-LAYING MOUNTAIN GOATS


Animal fakes and frauds can turn up in the most unexpected locations. While idly leafing through a box of old postcards at a collector’s fair several years ago, I came upon a delightful black-and-white German picture postcard that I just had to have. It depicted a pair of life-like models of the chamois, that engaging European mountain goat immortalised in the Babycham adverts, but not frolicking on some alpine peak. Instead, they were rearing a clutch of chamois eggs in an eyrie-like nest! As can be seen from this delightful postcard, the female chamois is busy incubating the clutch, including two chamois eggs shown at the very moment of hatching, while her mate stands guard proudly. According to the card’s caption, these chamois and their nest of eggs were discovered on 30 May 1937 upon Gamskogel, a steep mountain in the Austrian Tyrol. Sadly, I have no additional information regarding this wonderful tableau, but it is certainly one of the most charming examples of a Lusus Naturae that I have ever seen!

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  1. Is this a reference to the cryptid hyrax hypothesis perhaps?

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